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1 month ago | 
scroll.in | Raghav Kakkar |Nolina Minj
An Adani-owned thermal power plant in Godda, Jharkhand, supplies electricity to Bangladesh – the only private sector project in India which has been allowed to export power to another country. Last year, a change of regime in Dhaka brought the project under the spotlight – taking objection to the price at which Adani sold electricity, the Bangladesh government threatened to renegotiate the power purchase agreement with the company.
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1 month ago | 
scroll.in | Nolina Minj
An Adani power project that exports electricity to Bangladesh has faced heat from the new regime in Dhaka over the price of power. While the standoff between the company and Dhaka has made news, a recent protest in Godda, Jharkhand, where the company has built its thermal plant has largely gone unnoticed. Scroll travelled to Godda to report this two-part series.
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1 month ago | 
scroll.in | Divya Aslesha |Nolina Minj
On May 7, the Indian government fielded two women military officers to brief the press about the strikes carried out in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. One of them was Muslim – Colonel Sofiya Qureshi. For the international media watching India, the government’s messaging was loud and clear: unlike Pakistan, India is a secular democracy with a professional army. But within a week, this careful projection has unravelled.
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1 month ago | 
scroll.in | Nolina Minj
An Adani power project that exports electricity to Bangladesh has faced heat from the new regime in Dhaka over the price of power. While the standoff between the company and Dhaka has made news, a recent protest in Godda, Jharkhand, where the company has built its thermal plant, has largely gone unnoticed. Scroll travelled to Godda to report this two-part series. On March 30, several workers at Adani Power’s thermal power plant in Godda, Jharkhand, received an email that left them enraged.
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1 month ago | 
scroll.in | Ayush Tiwari |Nolina Minj |Rokibuz Zaman |Tabassum Barnagarwala
For four days, Pratham Mahato had been glued to his mobile phone, watching news updates on the India-Pakistan conflict while making and serving tea at his makeshift shop in Ranchi, Jharkhand. On May 7, the day India had launched strikes on alleged terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Mahato was exultant. “The government has done the right thing,” he told Scroll.
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1 month ago | 
scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala |Anant Gupta |Rokibuz Zaman |Nolina Minj
On Wednesday morning, several hours after India launched Operation Sindoor against targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Mudra Singhe made her way through an unseasonal rain shower to a civil defence drill in South Mumbai. A volunteer with the National Cadet Corps, the 19-year-old said the session taught her “how to carry out a rescue from a building, either by rappelling or by lying flat and proceeding”.
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2 months ago | 
scroll.in | Nolina Minj
On the morning of March 7, hundreds of Adivasis dressed in traditional garb formed a human chain in the city of Ranchi. The chain stretched across two kilometres, from Harmu chowk to Argora chowk, a route through which Jharkhand’s chief minister Hemant Soren was expected to pass on his way to attend the budget session of the assembly.
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2 months ago | 
scroll.in | Nolina Minj
Early on the morning of March 3, Mahesh, a 34-year-old resident of Rourkela, in Odisha, reported at the district sports complex in the town of Sundergarh, to take a physical test for a government job. For the test, he would have to walk or run 25 km within four hours. The test, conducted by the Odisha Subordinate Staff Selection Commission, was held jointly for the posts of forest guard, forester and livestock inspector. More than 8,000 aspirants had applied for 2,712 vacancies.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala |Nolina Minj
When 24-year-old Vishal Kadam visited the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya last January, he was keen to see the spot where the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment. What caught Kadam’s eye, however, were idols of Hindu gods and goddesses in corners of the temple compound. “There was very little of the essence of Buddhism,” Kadam said. “There were so many priests performing pooja and claiming they could solve the problems of the pilgrims through rituals,” he said.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
scroll.in | Nolina Minj
Nearly three decades after Parliament enacted a law to empower gram sabhas in Adivasi areas, Jharkhand is slowly inching closer to finalising draft rules required to implement the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996. However, the draft rules circulated among civil society groups in December have ignited a debate as many activists have pointed out that they are not based on PESA. Instead, they draw upon a different state law – the Jharkhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2001.
